The Irish in Australia

ClientFoxtel - History Channel

Year2011

ProducerMichael Tear

DirectorChris Bamford

Writer Michael Cove

Writer, actress and comedian Fiona O’Loughlin is conscious of her Irish heritage but unsure what this inheritance means. A third generation Australian, Fiona’s eight great grandparents all migrated from Ireland in the closing decades of the Nineteenth Century and Fiona’s comedic and, at times, emotional journey discovers the influence of the Irish on the Australian way of life while looking to answer the question, what have the Irish ever done for us?